Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Quotes
The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I am proud of where I came from, and I am proud of what I've been able to achieve through hard work and perseverance. And I guarantee you that anyone who tries to say otherwise hasn't walked a day in my shoes.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I think Islam has been hijacked by the idea that all Muslims are terrorists; that Islam is about hate, about war, about jihad - I think that hijacks the spirituality and beauty that exists within Islam. I believe in allowing Islam to be seen in context and in its entirety and being judged on what it really is, not what you think it is.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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The thing about comedy is it gives you a platform to expose your own shortcomings, so it becomes a public display of weirdness.
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Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge.
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I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.
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I've had a lot of struggles and I would be in a lot of trouble, I think, if I wasn't a Christian.
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The truth is, I hadn't grown up really wanting to be a writer. The whole thing was a weird aberration in some ways, and I didn't feel personally connected to the level of success I had with it - the success of sorts, I guess.
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I'm not sure what a conservative is. I don't know whether a conservative is a guy that goes to bed too early or maybe doesn't sleep long enough or just what the hell he might be. I don't know. Maybe he's a guy that - you know, he just wants to be real quiet.
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I was lucky to start working when German cinema was having an interesting moment. Now the quality is going downhill again because they're insisting on doing comedies. We should know by now that we make good cars but we're not the funniest people.
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I was a child of privilege and I woke up to a world on fire.
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You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.
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The chapter of knowledge is a very short, but the chapter of accidents is a very long one.
